Is there anyone along the Kinder Morgan Permian Highway Pipeline (PHP) route who wants this thing? While we appreciate the desire to use natural gas, currently being flared off at many West Texas drill sites, we’d appreciate it a lot more if this project moved south. Kinder Morgan representatives go...

Texas Type Apart of my childhood disappeared recently. After growing up across the street from Richards Memorial Hospital in my hometown of Rockdale, I felt helpless as I watched it close and put about 100 good people out of work. It was another slap for rural healthcare in these United States. Our ...

Improvements suggested by the Long-Range Community Vision Committee have been presented in a report titled, “Journey to 2020 … A Focus on Gillespie County.” Yet, the great suggestions in this document will help aid business, government, family and community quality for decades to come. Some of the i...

In another area of the state’s healthcare discussion, the latest U.S. Census Bureau data indicates that Texas has the highest number and percentage of...

We were proud to have Hill Country Memorial CEO Jayne Pope write on this page last week and explain the challenges of providing rural healthcare and w...

Last week’s story about the proposed Gillespie County budget showed a forward look by commissioners. The county will have increased revenue, thanks to...